[Mono-bugs] [Bug 77324][Nor] Changed - crashes using the mono framework on OSX

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Changed by gr at grrrr.org.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77324

--- shadow/77324	2006-03-28 11:36:57.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/77324.tmp.26795	2006-03-28 11:45:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -244,6 +244,17 @@
 ------- Additional Comments From miguel at ximian.com  2006-03-28 11:36 -------
 Dick, that sounds like a good solution.
 
 We cant anticipate every possible symbol in an OS, so this seems like
 a NOTABUG in Mono (if anything, a bug should be filed at Apple about
 this issue in their toolchain).
+
+------- Additional Comments From gr at grrrr.org  2006-03-28 11:45 -------
+Hmmm, that "solution" sounds really strange to me, and it's easy to anticipate that other 
+developers will have similar problems. To me it's a design weakness to use a symbol which 
+is already present in a system API of the target OS.
+
+It's clear that i could recompile mono using my own definitions but it's not a good option. 
+My goal is to ship an application in binary form which works for normal users with their 
+normal Mono installation under OSX (and other platforms where this is already working).
+The only workaround would be to provide a tweaked private mono framework inside the 
+application bundle. Doesn't sound very elegant to me.